Abraham Joshua Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Abraham Joshua Heschelwas a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. Heschel, a professor of Jewish mysticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, authored a number of widely read books on Jewish philosophy and was active in the American Civil Rights movement...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth11 January 1907
CountryPoland
wonder asks
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Every little deed counts.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.